GEYSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geyser mean? 

• GEYSER (noun)
  The noun GEYSER has 1 sense:

1. a spring that discharges hot water and steam

  Familiarity information: GEYSER used as a noun is very rare.

• GEYSER (verb)
  The verb GEYSER has 1 sense:

1. to overflow like a geyser

  Familiarity information: GEYSER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEYSER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spring that discharges hot water and steam

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("geyser" is a kind of...):

fountain; natural spring; outflow; outpouring; spring (a natural flow of ground water)

Instance hyponyms:

Old Faithful (a geyser in Yellowstone National Park that erupts for about 4 minutes about every 65 minutes)

Derivation:

geyser (to overflow like a geyser)

• GEYSER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To overflow like a geyser

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "geyser" is one way to...):

brim over; overflow; overrun; run over; well over (flow or run over (a limit or brim))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

geyser (a spring that discharges hot water and steam)

 Context examples 

Comparisons between the geysers and tidal stresses revealed similar connections.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

The geysers, which were discovered by Cassini in 2005, are jets of tiny water ice particles, water vapor and simple organic compounds.

(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)

In this was one of those boiling mud geysers which I have already described.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Any submerged feelings will come out like a geyser, shooting skyward at full force.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

It has been linked to active processes on Mars such as carbon dioxide gas geysers and lines on sand dunes plowed by blocks of dry ice.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

Ammonia, in addition to sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate found at Occator, has been detected in the plumes of Enceladus, an icy moon of Saturn known for its geysers erupting from fissures in its surface.

(Recent Hydrothermal Activity May Explain Ceres' Brightest Area, NASA)

Scientists using mission data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have identified 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

Long, sinuous, tendril-like structures seen in the vicinity of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus originate directly from geysers erupting from its surface, according to scientists studying images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.

(Icy Tendrils Reaching into Saturn Ring Traced to Their Source, NASA)

Some little time ago I had remarked to our young friend here that free hydrogen was evolved from the geyser.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thanks to recent analysis of Cassini gravity data, the researchers concluded the only plausible source of the material forming the geysers is the sea now known to exist beneath the ice shell.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)